13th Colossus Phalanx (One Grab Wander/Quarter Time Attack/Hard/Mirrored) [SotC PS4]

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Published on October 8, 2020 3:09:14 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDtyQ63-ZY

Game:

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

Duration: 2:55

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Ever wanted to dab on Phalanx's aileron rolls? Here's how.
So while doing a bunch of experimenting on Phalanx, I discovered that you can actually cross Phalanx's belly while he's doing the roll, so naturally I wanted to make a challenge based on that. The aileron roll animation is very brief since it obviously wasn't designed for a trick like this, so the timing on when you cross is super precise and took me a while to nail down somewhat constistently. Crossing the belly during the second roll is way more difficult than the first one though since there's that huge sack mound to cross, so that one pretty much always requires an edge leap as I did here both times. Not a huge amount of unique steps in this challenge, but I'd say the stunts you have to do here make this the most visually striking one out of all of them.

So this is a clip from April 2019, the first and only time I've beaten this particular custom challenge. At the time I wasn't very satisfied with how I did this though since in a lot of my earlier attempts I managed to run/jump on Phalanx's belly a lot more instead of basically leaping from one side to the other as I did here twice. But nowadays I've got other hobbies so I thought I might as well show how close I got to my ultimate goal.

This ultimate goal by the way was to beat Phalanx without grabbing on any surface, and it's very possible by combining most of what I did here with the speedrun method of getting Phalanx to sink super close to the ground and just jumping on him from Agro's back. That's something I practiced for a while but never got the hang of it, so this video might effectively be my top SotC custom challenge accomplishment since this was definitely among the hardest ones.

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The idea here was to defeat the colossus with only one grab on any surface allowed, in less than a quarter the Time Attack goal, on Hard mode, and in Mirrored World.

One Grab Wander is just a funky way of saying you can only grab on a surface once during the entire fight. Whether you use that grab on the environment or on the colossus is up to you.

Quarter Time Attack just means that you need to finish the colossus in 1/4 the normal time available. In this case a goal of 10​:15.00 turns into 02​:33.75.

Controls: Modern Remapped

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